“
Israeli Occupation Worse Than That of The Nazi's”: Dutch Activist
By Khaled Shawkat, IOL Holland Correspondent
"AMSTERRDAM, January 12 (IslamOnline) – The Dutch peace activist
wife of the European Central Bank (ECB) chief Wim Duisenberg was given a warm reception from dozens of the Muslim community in the Netherlands following her visit to the occupied Palestinian territories.
"Greta Duisenberg, the founder of the “Stop the Occupation” committee, slammed the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories as inhuman and accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of provoking violence.
"Greta’s solidarity visit to the occupied Palestinian territories triggered a fierce media and political campaign against her, sparked by official and unofficial circles close to the Zionist lobby in the Netherlands, the Israeli Ha’aretz daily newspaper said.
'“The power of the Israeli government to humiliate [Palestinians] like that - I cannot stand it... If you see it yourself, it's more inhuman," Greta said. “If [Israelis] want really to have peace, they should stop confiscating land all the time for all those settlements. It goes on and goes on and that's not logical."
"Emerging from a meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, the ECB president's wife asserted that Israel should "give back the occupied territories" and said that Arafat hates killing, underling that “there should be peace and the military situation of the Israeli government should stop because their actions are terrible."
'"I did ask [Arafat] about the suicide bombings and he's absolutely against it," Duisenberg said.
'"He even told me that yesterday he prevented two attempts."
"She blamed Israel for the violence afflicting the region, saying that Sharon "always provokes [violence] in my view... and then he blames the Palestinian people."
"The
Israeli occupation was worse than Nazi Germany's occupation of the Netherlands, Greta was quoted by a Dutch newspaper as saying.
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Duisenberg had earlier in the week said he was 100 percent behind his wife, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center called Friday, January10 , for him to either resign or be fired if he supports what it claimed anti-Semitic comments by his wife over the past year, the daily added. ..."
